§696circumda torquem brachiis, meum collum circumplecte.
Wrap a collar with your arms, embrace my neck.
§697Ten complectatur, carnufex?
Is she to embrace you, you scoundrel?
§697bQuam vero indignus videor?
Do I indeed seem so unworthy?
§698ne istuc nequiquam dixeris tam indignum dictum in me, §699vehes pól hodie me, si quidem hoc argentum ferre speres.
Lest you should have spoken such an unworthy word against me in vain, by Pollux today you shall carry me, if indeed you hope to take away this money.
§700Ten ego veham?
Am I to carry you?
§700bTun hoc feras argentum áliter a me?
Or are you to get this money from me otherwise?
§701Perii hercle.
By Hercules, I am undone.
si verum quidem et decorum erum vehere servom, §702inscende.
If indeed it is right and proper for a master to carry a slave, mount.
§702bSic isti solent superbi subdomari.
This is how those proud fellows are usually tamed.
§703asta igitur, ut consuetus es puer olim.
Stand ready then, as you used to be as a boy once.
scin ut dicam?
Do you know what I mean?
§704em sic.
Ah, like that.
abi, laúdo, nec te equo magis est equos ullus sapiens.
Go on, I praise you, nor is any horse more sensible than you.
§705Inscende actutum.
Mount immediately.
§705bEgo fecero.
I will do so.
hem quid istúc est? ut tu incedis?
Ah, what is that? How are you walking?
§706demam hercle iam de hórdeo, tolutim ni badizas.
By Hercules, I will take away from your barley now, unless you trot.
§707Amabo, Libane, iam sat est.
Please, Libanus, now it is enough.
§707bNumquam hercle hodie exorabis.
By Hercules today you shall never win me over.
§708nam iam calcari quadrupedo agitabo advorsum clivom, §709postidea ad pistores dabo, ut ibí cruciere currens.
For now I will drive this quadruped with the spur against the hill, and afterwards I will hand you over to the bakers, that you may be tortured there while running.
§710asta ut descendam nunciam in proclivi, quamquam nequam es.
Stand still, so that I may get down now on the slope, although you are a worthless beast.
§711Quid nunc, amabo? quoniam, ut est libitum, nos delusistis,
What now, please?
§712datisne argentum?
Since you have made fools of us as you pleased, do you give the money?
§712bSi quidem mihi statuam et aram statuis §713atque ut deo mi hic immolas bovem: nam ego tibi Salus sum.
If indeed you set up a statue and an altar for me, and sacrifice a bull here to me as to a god; for I am Salvation to you.
§714Etiam tu, ere, istunc amoves abs te atque † ipse me adgredere §715atque illa, sibi quae hic iusserat, mihi statuis supplicasque?
Do you too, master, remove that fellow from you and approach me yourself, and make supplications to me with statues, doing those things which he had ordered for himself?
§716Quem te autem divom nominem?
But what god should I call you?
§716bFortunam, atque Obsequentem.
Fortune, and indeed Compliant Fortune.
§717Iam istoc es melior.
Now in that you are better.
§717bAn quid est homini Salute melius?
Or is there anything better for a man than Salvation?
§718Licet laúdem Fortunam, tamen ut ne Salutem culpem.
Though I may praise Fortune, yet I would not blame Salvation.
§719Ecastor ambae sunt bonae.
By Castor, both are good.
§719bSciam ubi boni quid dederint.
I shall know when they have given something good.
§720Opta id quod ut cóntingat tibi vis.
Wish for that which you want to happen to you.
§720bQuid si optaro?
What if I wish?
§720cEveniet.
It will happen.
§721Opto annum hunc perpetuom mihi huius operas.
I wish for this whole year to have her services continuously.
§721bImpetrasti.
You have obtained it.
§722Ain vero?
Do you really say so?
§722bCerte inquam.
Certainly, I say.
§722cAd me adi vicissim atque experire.
Come to me in turn and try.
§723exopta id quod vis maxime tibi evenire: fiet.
Wish for that which you most desire to happen to you; it shall be done.
§724Quid ego aliud exoptem amplius nisi illud cuius inópiast, §725viginti argenti commodas minas, huius quas dem matri.
What else should I wish for more except that which is lacking, twenty convenient minae of silver, which I may give to her mother.
§726Dabuntur, animo sis bono face, exoptata optingent.
They shall be given; make sure you are of good courage, your wishes will happen.
§727Vt consuevere, homines Salus frustratur et Fortuna.
As they are accustomed, Salvation and Fortune frustrate men.
§728Ego caput huic argento fui hodie reperiundo.
I was the head for finding this money today.
§729Ego pes fui.
I was the foot.
§729bQuin nec caput nec pes sermoni apparet.
Indeed, neither head nor foot appears in your talk.
§730nec quid dicatis scire nec me cur ludatis possum.
I can neither know what you are saying, nor why you are mocking me.
§731Satis iám delusum censeo.
I think we have mocked you enough now.
nunc rém ut est eloquamur.
Now let us speak of the matter as it is.
§732animum, Argyrippe, advorte sis.
Argyrippus, attend please.
pater nos ferre hoc iussit §733argentum ad ted.
Your father ordered us to bring this money to you.
§733bVt temperi opportuneque attulistis.
How seasonably and opportunely you have brought it!
§734Hic inerunt viginti minae bonae, mala opera partae; §735has tibi nos pactis legibus dare iussit.
Here will be twenty good minae, acquired by bad work; these he ordered us to give to you on certain conditions.
§735bQuid id est, quaeso?
What is that, please?
§736Noctem huius et cénam sibi ut dares.
That you should give him a night with her and a dinner.
§736bIube advenire quaeso:
Order him to come, I pray.
We will do what he wishes, most deservedly of him, who has brought together our love which had been driven apart.
Will you endure, Argyrippus, your father embracing her?
§739bHaec faciet facile ut patiar.
This money will easily make me endure it.
§740Leonida, curre obsecro, patrem huc orato ut veniat.
Leonida, run I pray, entreat my father to come here.
§741Iam dudum est intus.
He has been inside for a long time.
§741bHac quidem non venit.
Indeed he did not come this way.
§741cAngiporto §742illac per hortum circum iit clam, ne quis se videret §743huc ire familiarium: ne uxor resciscat metuit.
Through the lane, he went around secretly that way through the garden, lest anyone of the household should see him coming here: he fears lest his wife should find out.
If your mother knew about the money, how it was managed— Hey, speak well.
§745bIte intro cito.
Go inside quickly.
§745cValete. —
Farewell.
§745dEt vos amate. —
And do you love each other.
Come now, show that agreement which you drew up between me and my mistress and the madam.
leges pellege.
Read the terms.
§748nam tu poeta es prorsus ad eam rem unicus.
for you are indeed a unique poet for that business.
§749Horrescet faxo lena, leges cum audiet.
I warrant you, the madam will shudder when she hears the terms.
§750Age quaeso mi hercle translege.
Come, by Hercules, please read it through.
§750bAudin?
Are you listening?
§750cAudio.
I am listening.
§751“Diabolus Glauci filius Clearetae §752lenae dedit dóno argenti viginti minas, §753Philaenium ut secum esset noctes et dies §754hunc annum totum. ” §754bNeque cum quiquam alio qui Demaenetvs §755Addone?
"Diabolus the son of Glaucus, to Cleareta the madam, gave as a gift twenty minae of silver, that Philaenium might be with him nights and days this whole year." "Nor with anyone else, who is Demaenetus—" Shall I add?
§755bÁdde, et scribas víde plane et probe.
Add, and see that you write clearly and properly.